To be more specific, it's just too visually washed out, with the pastels and light shades not creating enough visual definition between the various page layout components as they drop from one color to the next.

The new format is terrible on the eyes. You have to strain as the color is so washed out. The green gave plenty of definition. In addition, if not for this post, I would not have known that my subscritions were lost during this change.

To be more specific, it's just too visually washed out, with the pastels and light shades not creating enough visual definition between the various page layout components as they drop from one color to the next.

we have changed the color of the heading for each post to be a bit darker...let us know if that looks better to you

The new format is terrible on the eyes. You have to strain as the color is so washed out. The green gave plenty of definition. In addition, if not for this post, I would not have known that my subscritions were lost during this change.

they were not lost...if you go to the navigation bar above, you should have a "My Account" link...hover over the link and a drop down menu should appear and the second link is "Subscribed Threads"